College Chancellor May Have Broken State Laws

Here's the report by independent investigators into evidence we uncovered of misspending and mismanagement at San Jose Evergreen Community College District. It finds former chancellor Rosa Perez may have broken state laws by hiring and promoting a woman with whom she had a personal and financial relationship.

You can also see the investigation that started it all last Novemberhere. By the way, the I-Team picked up an Emmy last week and a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the National Society of Professional Jourmalists for this investigation.

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Thanks for alerting us all to this story. However, your reporting has had a ton of holes. You should be more careful. An award? No way. You should be thanks for your efforts, but you reported things we now know are not true. and plenty that was true, thank you.

I think Mr Slavin did a remarkable job to not knock you on your ass. What right have you got to derail a town hall meeting? We learned nothing from your theatrics other than you're a bully and unprofessional. I wonder why your "story" wasn't run by any other news agency? This isn't journalism, it's sensationalism. But hey, it sells better than the truth. The way I read it, the issues at LH have been going on for decades. The current admin began the clean up by ousting the real problems. How come you don't report that?

This is a smart blog. I mean it. You have so much knowledge about this issue, and so much passion. You also know how to make people rally behind it, obviously from the responses. Youve got a design here thats not too flashy, but makes a statement as big as what youre saying. Great job, indeed.

Here's the report by independent investigators into evidence we uncovered of misspending and mismanagement at San Jose Evergreen Community College District. It finds former chancellor Rosa Perez may have broken state laws by hiring and promoting a woman with whom she had a personal and financial relationship.

above other systems dont work great for me to keep up with cmeomnts I have made@Jen yeah I learn so much by thinking about what influences my own behaviour@Alan, thank you @natnit I had to look that up and I am still not sure what it means @Rusty, Liz and Darren are organising their own get-togethers, but it is true they are rare and tend to be conferences rather than meet-ups@john, I will write up my comment policy. Short answer: I do delete spam using akismet or offensive cmeomnts manually. Some cmeomnts get caught in the spam filter by mistake, most of which I catch but some obviously I don't. Those cmeomnts you refer to on the procrastination post were absolutely horrible filth or nasty attacks (mainly myself but some about bloggers in general). I see disagreeing and downright offensive as two different things. I delete the latter while encouraging the former.

On many blogs, including this one, if you put a link in your cnmemot your cnmemot will be marked as spam and the blogger will have to go through extra steps for your cnmemot to show up so unless it is very much adding to the conversation I would leave the only link the one attached to your name.It's more the links coming IN that make you an authority site. Being a hub can help but it is more about the times people link to you when discussing a topic.Yes the outbound links can affect the topic your blog is perceived to be about in Google but I am not too concerned, my blog is for people not search engines. In most niches the cnmemots you get will be from others in your niche, blogging as a topic is so vague anyway it will not hurt me to link to credit and education sites

hi, Chris, how are you today?I'd be surprised if Akismet doesn't have a way of dencttieg hundreds/thousands of comments on multiple blogs within a short space of time surely that would mess up the service' Darren reported on.Aside from that (& perhaps more useful) here's a couple of plugin ideas that would sit in between no follow' & do follow':1. A plugin that changes the wordpress moderation options FROM: approve/spam/delete/defer TO: approve/no follow/spam/delete/defer2. A plugin that automatically switches someone from no follow' to do follow' after 3 (or 5, 10, n) previously approved commentsA great bit about the second one is you could tell people about it on the thanks' page after they submit their first comment. A spammer may think oh great, all i need to do is submit 9 more comments but, by submitting 9 more half-hearted comments, they automatically flag themselves as spammers.Speak to you soon,daniel